It's A Binary World 2.0

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Testing Email Clients

Ever since late Fedora 12 or, for sure, Fedora 13, Evolution has been annoying me.  I don’t know if it’s linked or coincidental, but it appears to have started getting buggy after I noticed it was using couchdb, a database that a lot of database people in the Linux world are getting all excited about. [...]

Filed under: Fedora by Eric Mesa | 3 Comments »

KDE 4 Look Part 3: A Week of KDE 4.5

So I’ve used KDE for about a work week.  During that time I’ve pretty much gone to using the KDE versions of all my programs except Konqueror.  I’m not sure if the Fedora 14 version of Konqueror is the one with Webkit, but last time I used Konqueror with KHTML it was mucking up a [...]

Filed under: General by Eric Mesa | 20 Comments »

Customizing the Look of the OS

I forgot what post online got me thinking about this stuff, but I really don’t customize my computers’ desktop environments much.  Generally, I tend to change the background image and leave it at that.  I took a look over my desktop image gallery here on the blog to confirm my suspicions. Starting at the bottom [...]

Filed under: Gnome, KDE, M$ by Eric Mesa | Comments Off

Leaving CrunchBang Linux for Lubuntu

I first migrated to CrunchBang Linux because they kept talking about it on Linux Outlaws. Specifically they mentioned how fast it was and, if I recall correctly, Fab was using it on his netbook. My laptop battery life was quickly dwindling so, if I wanted to be able to use it on a plane, I [...]

Filed under: Linux by Eric Mesa | 8 Comments »

My Boxen

Since I do I lot of distro reviews, I thought it might be relevant to talk about what I run so you could get an idea of where I’m coming from. Running on my main Linux machine (Super Mario), and my first intro into libre software, is Fedora.  I’ve been using it since the Fedora [...]

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Desktop Screenshots

Here are screenshots I’ve taken of my Computer Desktops at various times. Linux – Mario/Super Mario: Fedora – KDE: 2013: I’ve been using Activities since KDE 4.6.3, so here are my desktops per activity: Programming Activity: Video Editing Activity: Video Games Activity: Photography Activity: Multimedia Activity: School Activity: Main Activity:  2012 KDE Screenshots 2011 KDE  [...]

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